Visiting Poems VVritten By Wil. Shake-speare, gent. at the Boston Public Library

by Jo Swenson

I am incredibly grateful to all the libraries that have digitized the materials I used for this project. I spent a lot of time consulting the digitized copy of Poems VVritten By Wil. Shake-speare, gent. held at the Boston Public Library. A few weeks ago, I was able to go see the book in person.

Printed as an octavo, this edition is quite small, which at times made it difficult to open, but I got some pictures of it while I was visiting the Special Collections at the BPL.

It was incredible getting to see this book that I had spent so much time studying digitally in person. Thank you to everyone at the Special Collection at Boston Public Library for all their help handling this rare book!

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